The environment at the Max Planck institutes is both open and stimulating – and international: with 85 institutes and ...

From 24 to 26 June 2025, the Max Planck Society is hosting its annual meeting in Magdeburg, bringing together around 500 guests, including both internal members and external participants. The ...

Major drivers of high-quality science, such as Germany’s Max Planck Society and CNRS in France, drop several places as China’s universities rise. Western research institutions continue to ...

The Max Planck Symposium is an intensive, two-day career conference serving as a platform to connect international Max Planck Alumni and Max Planck Early Career Researchers of all disciplines and ...

Milko van der Boom talks to Chemistry World about dealing with destruction at the Weizmann Institute, saving samples and ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is to create the largest time-lapse of sky using the world's largest digital camera. The first research images are now available.

More precise model calculations for past summers To test the quality of the resulting prediction, they used a so-called hindcast experiment: a prediction for a period that already lies in the past.

The Harnack Medal has been awarded only 36 times since 1924, including 10 times by the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft (1924-1936) and 26 times by the Max Planck Society (1953-2025). It was awarded for ...

Talent, creativity and passion - that's what the Max Planck Society relies on. It promotes all employees equally. Because research needs diversity. This is also formulated in the Code of Conduct, the ...

The Munich-based start-up Proxima Fusion, a spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, has raised €130 million in capital. The company plans to use the funds to finance the development ...

We are increasingly encountering artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives, from bots in call centers and robotic colleagues on assembly lines, to electronically controlled players in ...